Quotes with might-have-been

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  • T. S. Eliot We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • E. M. Forster We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Edward Rowland Sill We must do the best we can with what we have.
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  • Ban Ki-moon We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • George Eliot We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Maxwell Maltz We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Harry S. Truman We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Peter de Vries We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Adlai Stevenson II We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Lee We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Audre Lorde We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Graham Greene We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Bill Clinton We need a steady stream of cash. The American people have been uncommonly generous.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Andy Rooney We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Buzz Aldrin We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ben Carson We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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